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I have always been a bit of a lecher: Khushwant

At 98, Khushwant Singh counts himself lucky that he still enjoys his evening drink and relishes tasty food, but feels sad that he has always been a bit of a lecher and looked at women as objects of......

Khushwant Singh launches his 'last book'

On a chilly Delhi evening, Rediff.com's Vaihayasi Pande Daniel attends Khushwant Singh's latest book launch, which the legendary writer says is his last.The chilly winter Delhi evening was......

'Allen loved Calcutta, where poets were worshipped

In the early 1960s, journalist and Sikh historian Khushwant Singh met with a group of hippies who told him that they had left America for an Indian sojourn because they were fed up with......

Padma Vibhushan for Fali Nariman, Khushwant Singh

Noted jurist Fali Nariman, eminent litterateur Khushwant Singh and Centre's pointsman on Jammu and Kashmir N N Vohra were honoured with the coveted Padma Vibhushan awards while steel tycoon Jamshed......

Kalam calls on Khushwant Singh

Khushwant Singh, noted journalist and former editor of The Illustrated Weekly of India and The Hindustan Times, was pleasantly surprised when President A P J Abdul Kalam broke protocol to call on......

Big bucks? Authors too are getting them

Authors have finally started making news in India, with the size of their book advances and not just their books themselves. Ramachandra Guha had publishers vying to offer him upwards of a crore of......

Jaswant's book set to ride 'controversy' sales

Rupa & Co will be glad that former External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh dropped his plans to publish his memoirs, A Call to Honour, on his own.Trade circles say the book, in the market for a......

For Penguin it's a big shift!

Question: what's black and white, lives in an orange egg and has recently started talking in Hindi and other Indian languages, after years of being an English-speaking bird?Answer: Penguin.Okay,......

'I have become Ranbir, Shahid, Saif many times'

He may not be as famous as Javed Akhtar, Gulzar or Prasoon Joshi. But Irshad Kamil is getting there.The lyricist, who has written for songs for films like Chameli,Socha Na Tha, Jab We Met, Love Aaj......

Review: Hello

October is a good time of the year. For Chetan Bhagat, in particular. Around this time in 2005, he released his second novel, One Night @ A Call Centre. And as its turns out, it's that month of the......

Manoj Bajpai the model

Though she wasousted from Samir Karnik's Kyon? Ho Gaya Na Pyaar (starring Vivek Oberoi and Aishwarya Rai), Payal Rohatgi (Yeh Kya Ho Raha Hai) has baggedtheKnockout Beer television commercial.She......

Spielberg to remake The Party

Theirreverent Peter Sellers comedy, The Party,banned in India in the late 1960s, is being remade by Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks and directed by Jay Roach (Austin Powers In Goldmember, Meet The......

Ghosal, Nandrajog have it easy

Minor upsets notwithstanding, matches went according to seedingsin the 55th ICL National Squash Championship in Chennai on Wednesday.The performances of the topplayers show that Saurav Ghosal and......

National squash: Smooth sailing for men's seeds

The top 16 seeds in the men's section, including Saurav Ghosal and Gaurav Nandrajog of Delhi, sailed into the second round, evens as the women side saw a few upsets in the 55th Senior ICL National......

Hockey team's Rourkela camp begins

The Indian hockey team has set out on a rectifying mission at a training camp for the Asian Games probables in Rourkela. It will work towards correcting the faults it committed at the......

People speak for khushwant singh

QNA

Q. Who is the author of, `Toba Tek Singh'?
Whizkid: A. more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/who-is-the-author-of-toba-tek-singh/25567522/answers/

Q. A TRAIN TO PAKISTAN IS WRIITEN BY
VIVEK MAHAJAN: A. khushwant singh i think.. more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/a-train-to-pakistan-is-wriiten-by/25186053/answers/25567532

Q. Peenewalon ko kya sach mein peene ka bahaana chahaiye...???
Pradipta Pati: A. khushwant singh more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/peenewalon-ko-kya-sach-mein-peene-ka-bahaana-chahaiye.../24984763/answers/25186059

Q. Do u read shoba de's columns and like it?
MAdhavan Avadhany: A. I am like Khushwant Singh, who needed no bahna. He simply drank only on two days. When it rained and when it not rained. more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/do-u-read-shoba-des-columns-and-like-it/24898236/answers/24984812

Q. WHO WROTE THE BOOK WE THE PEOPLE
Mnikhilchandguptha: A. She is also known as Lady Khushwant Singh. Bold and Blunt. Not afraid to call spade a spade. more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/who-wrote-the-book-we-the-people/24889116/answers/24898284

Web results for Khushwant Singh

Nothing to hide

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Sins of sons are visited upon those who wield power

New Delhi, May 5: Railway minister Pawan Bansal is merely the latest on a long list of powerful politicians who suffered embarrassment, and often... ...

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The creative side of a police inspector

Police inspector Rajender Sing Kalkal is a little different from rest of his ilk. Heading the Delhi Police Museum since 2003, Rajender Singh, an... ...

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/329470/creative-side-police-inspector.html

National pride has nothing to do with airport checks

While touring a factory in Scotland, Prince Phillip looked at a fuse board and said: 'Looks like it was wired by an Indian!' Was he wide of the... ...

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